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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1935
Page
4
Local residents share visits and greetings including Mrs. Cliffie Goodwin and Mrs. Viola McHaney visiting Thursday. Sylvia Evans and Mr White of Salem wed on March 2. Mrs. Posey of Kinmundy mourns husband with funeral Sunday afternoon.
Classified ads list upright pianos for sale or cash terms from Baldwin Piano Co Cincinnati and local dealers. Also offers on rock phosphate hay soy beans eggs hens tractors plows and daybeds furniture and a public sale by Perry Smith with plans to move to Arizona along with community notices and local movements.
Vernon Dean Freyer visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Freyer after eight years in the U S Navy in California. Funeral attendance included Mr I W Doolen and daughter Dot and Mrs Elizabeth Doolen for Charles Pruett in Kinmundy. Mrs G P Weaver of Villa Grove visits with daughter Mrs Ellis Doolen east of town amid illness. County Highway Commissioner E H Barenfanger visited on Monday. Mrs Laura Crickenberger died at Nokomis. Local farm residents Eatathalos previously lived west of town. Hazel Cox J C Binnion and Clarence Hanson traveled to Vandalia for the Vernon post office Civil Service exam. Mr and Mrs Jesse Adamssen and Mr and Mrs Ed McNutt of Decatur were guests of Mr and Mrs Wm C Oates Sunday. Helen Jarrett of Vandalia High School spent the weekend with family. Elizabeth Burton returned from Champaign after a visit with son Elvis Burton. A funeral for George Wernsman was held from his home Monday afternoon.
East of town H B Anderson and family and Miss Lila Williams spent last Sunday with Dwight Bundy of St Paul. Mrs Maude Caldwell who has been quite sick for several weeks is somewhat improved. Sam Cozad and wife visited last Sunday with R C Vaughn in Odin. Dale Thompson and Ted Nelson made a business trip to Maroa last.
Everett Goodwin served as a Patoka caller on Wednesday. Mrs. Ella Cozad spoke with Mrs. Ruth Talbert after Ruth Wagner and daughters Helen Jean and Carrol Ruth visited. John Talbert and family shared Sunday dinner at Wim. Palmer and family. John Wagner and Arthur Campbell drove John’s new horse in Patoka on Thursday. Jimmy Renfro fell from a barn loft and broke his arm on Sunday after visits from Russell Palmer and family and Henry Stillabower. Frances Palmer and Lena Mae Talbert visited Mrs. Mayme Muck Sunday afternoon. Wm. Perkins aided his brother Harry near Shobonier Sunday and will stay briefly to help cut wood. Herman Muck was a Patoka business caller on Saturday. Clarence Tackett called on the Wm. Palmer family Sunday afternoon for setting eggs.
John Fulton Mc Haney and his wife traveled to Tonti on a business trip while J. W. Fulton from near Iuka visited friends and relatives in the area during the same period.
The column lists residents visiting relatives and friends in Patoka Centaria Kinmundy and Salem along with exchanges of visits between Caldwell Williams and Arnold households. Several local residents are seen hauling logs and performing chores while others work for neighbors and attend dental appointments after a heavy rain.
Sunday caused the branches to swell as Harlan VanHorn and his Brownstown family joined Elmer Berry and family. Mrs. Frank Frizzell visited Saturday with Mrs. Frank Thomason while Elmer Berry, Jamie Caldwell and Oscar Caldwell worked on the telephone line.
Mr and Mrs Glen Hicks spent Sunday with Mrs Hicks parents. Ladies Aid reschedules due to rain. Neighbors Babe Tickoor and Edwin Tickoor shopped in Patoka and Sandoval. Dan Hicks of Chicago visited J P Hicks. Warren couple children and siblings active in community. Holman death from pneumonia and heart attack prompts sympathy. Citizens share condolences.
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